In Mantua “Tiziano/Gerhard Richter. Il Cielo sulla Terra”

In 1972 while visiting the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Richter saw the Venetian’s version of the painting and recognizing in Titian the quality “that makes art a work of art”, he decided to make a copy of it. Since then the great German painter’s dialogue with the old Italian master from Pieve da Cadore has inspired his work and periodically urged him to return to this precious and intimate source.

 

 

Assisted by curators, the Fondazione Palazzo Te invited the German artist to express this intimate and long lasting dialogue through two of Titian’s masterpieces – the Annunciations of San Rocco and Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. Gerhard Richter generously agreed to the proposal creating a series of 17 works, brought directly from his studio. The paintings subtly tell a story all played out through his encounter with the mystery of the Announcement. The story reverberates in a dedicated cycle of works illustrating Richter’s method of representing the female (Betty and Ella). It is a story that describes the theory and practice of colour, mutual transcendence, the connections between colours in their diversity, and perhaps even the transparency of the vision in relationship to a mystical beyond. Dedicated to this is the last room, where Richter displays a red mirror, the colour of the dress of Titian’s Virgin, as evidence of a reverberation that crosses time and safeguards secrets. The Fondazione Palazzo Te is privileged to host an exhibition of broad scope that allows Richter to speak of himself. The show includes two Annunciations and some preparatory works by Titian. The subject matter of the Annunciation and the feminine is defined in its ability to connect “the sky and the earth” in the work of artists so significant and so far apart in time.

 

 

7 October 2018 - 6 Jenuary 2019

Palazzo Te - Viale Te 13, Mantua (Italy).

From Sunday 28 October 2018: Monday from 1.00pm to 6.30pm Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00am to 6.30pm (ticket office closing at 5.30 pm).

 

 

Airports near Mantuaa: Verona VRN (circa 45 Km), Parma PMF (circa 67 Km), Bologna BLQ (circa 108 Km), Milan Bergamo BGY (circa 142 Km), Milan Linate LIN (circa 146 Km), Venice VCE (circa 162 Km).